42 U.S. Code § 8001 - Congressional findings

(1)congregate housing, coordinated with the delivery of supportive services, offers an innovative, proven, and cost-effective means of enabling temporarily disabled or handicapped individuals to maintain their dignity and independence and to avoid costly and unnecessary institutionalization;

(2)a large and growing number of elderly and handicapped residents of public housing projects and of nonprofit projects for the elderly and handicapped face premature and unnecessary institutionalization because of the absence of or deficiencies in the availability, adequacy, coordination, or delivery of the supportive services required for the successful development of adequate numbers of congregate housing projects; and

(3)supplemental supportive services, available on a secure and continuing basis, are essential to a successful congregate housing program.

Pub. L. 111–374, § 1(a),Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 4089, provided that: “This Act [amending section
8013 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section
8013 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010’.”